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by wwalser 10y ago
I think this: "I don't have a specific job title, as I wear several hats." is the crux of the problem. Imagine a software product labeled "business software" because it's capable of running your whole business.
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For others wondering about how this works and considering their options: I've spent a significant time around lawyers who do license/copyright work for the two startups I've worked for. I am not a lawyer myself and this isn&#
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It's possible. I've worked with the commercial side of an open source project where the company that I worked for paid the OS team for some dev-time and guaranteed code reviews. It worked out okay but I assume that the cost was si
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> Do you think that market cap of Yahoo was increased by 151% in four years as a direct result of the number of hours worked? No. I believe it's probably true that she is compensated, in part, because of her brand which is highly as
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This could be the case. I wasn't able to quickly find market cap information for Ali Baba prior to it's US listing. Every since the Ali Baba IPO, Yahoo!'s stock has closely tracked BABA.
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Create things. Tell people. I'm making broad assumptions about what you're good and bad at. Read the following through that filter and throw out anything that you are confident doesn't apply. 1. The best first step for this i
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While I agree with your statement for the most part, I also understand that there is some context to it. That specific context is Marissa Mayer and other early Google employees. I find it hard to convince myself that those people and especi
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So the answer to the question "are some of the validators async?" is "Yes." That makes perfect sense then, thanks! Looks like a great lib where async validators are needed.
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https://blog.parsehub.com/how-we-got-our-first-10-paying-saa... I believe this post was the genesis of the odesk idea. SaaS tends to be inexpensive compared to paying a human to do something, even if that human is underpaid
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Gravity isn't an energy or a source of energy. It's more like a spring or magnet than sunlight or heat. Gravitational forces can be used to store energy, similar to compressing a spring. Bill Gates talks about this principle towar
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I don't understand why it returns a promise. Are some of the validators asynchronous (ex: call an outside resource and validate against the response)? All of the example appear to define validations that could be run synchronously.
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The big places like Uber, Facebook & Google are always hiring in NYC. Also, lots of ad-tech (ranging from small to huge) and some interesting full stack companies like Oscar hire fairly consistently. Depends on what you're looking
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I'll be there. I'm working on customer feedback and data triage automation[1]. Customers install our tool and it handles collecting customer feedback then creates relevant "buckets" to drop feedback into. Those buckets c
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One compelling idea that I heard recently was looking around on odesk and similar sites for lots of similar requests and building a tool that solves those problems. The upside is that you can find a probably that people are provably interes
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by wwalser 10y ago
Here is a good podcast on this subject: http://thestartupchat.com/ep126/ A significant number of the self-funded startup people that I come across used the stair-step approach that's described in the podcast.
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This hit the front page of Medium on the day. I was surprised that I didn't see anything about the acquisition on HN as well. https://backchannel.com/two-decades-ago-he-borrowed-500-from...
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I think about hiring a lot and I see a lot of companies doing things that I think are completely opposed to their own goals. Specifically around technical talent where, given the current market, the goal is almost always to out-compete othe
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I'm a developer turned founder and I've considered using Readme.io. The ability to defer work in the exchange for time is king for me right now. In my experience, setting up another Google Cloud project (this could be cloudfront,
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by wwalser 10y ago
Is this advocacy for safer development environments or just mud slinging at the Node community? You called a critical security layer that protects literally billions of users every day "babyproofing". No only Javascript but most f
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Yeah, I don't think anyone can strongly disagree. At the end of the day it's mostly people trying and failing to get a fair shake and give others a fair shake. Along the way we tend to overestimate what a fair shake is for ourselv
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All good, good luck and stay safe out there. Roundabouts always scared me more than cars overtaking. Also, the occasional parking lot was a surprisingly good place to get backed over very slowly.
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I don't anymore, relocated, but I did commute for years in Sydney and I couldn't find a trace of unhelpful attitude in this person's post. They just stated facts. Didn't say that they agreed or disagreed. They didn'
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Pulling a gun is one thing. Actually pulling the trigger though? Four whole months in prison… http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/23/charles-diez-gets-120-...
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This person never said that they did pass cyclists while it's unsafe. They only perfectly described what actually does happen. As someone who commuted via cycling daily in Sydney for several years, "I just don't see how you c
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/08/2... I can't imagine how autonomous vehicles could make cycling less safe. The only thing I'm coming up with is that the side pro
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by wwalser 10y ago
While I don't know the answer to your question, I have always had a similar reaction to seeing actual numbers involved in lobbying. It usually went like this: someone would seem outraged at how much money a representative had received
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Installing a ramp at the entrance to a building or on the side of a cab is a one time fixed cost. I'm not saying I disagree but I am curious, are these examples of regulations requiring businesses take on significant ongoing costs in o
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tl;dr Have a zen attitude about getting turned down. The best companies in the world are still spectacularly bad at technical interviews. Whew, reading these answers is depressing. Not because of any of the answers that anyone has given (th
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Yeah, sure thing: I've seen it happen a few times mostly with companies whose founders I listen to regularly on podcasts. It's almost always tactical growth advice, something that every startup struggles to find early on. Where ar
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As a quick tip, I don't think any modern browsers allow a site to wipe out history from previously visited sites. In this case for example two quick hits to the back button should have worked. You can click and hold the back button to

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